Interested in grad studies in forensic affective neuroscience? CANdiLab will be considering top graduate students at the MSc or PhD level for fall 2025. Canadian and International students equally welcome to apply. For more info, check out our website: CANdiLab.com/prospective-stu….

Thanks so much to @NIRx_NIRS for the training session today on our brand new NIRSport2 fNIRS system. Next step: cutting-edge neuroimaging work to better understand human social/emotional/cognitive processing in naturalistic environments. @ontariotech_u

Want to study the integrity of emotional/empathic systems in psychopathic and/or substance abusing populations? CANdiLab will be recruiting two new MSc/PhD students for Fall 2023/24. Think this might be a good fit? Feel free to get in touch, via DM, email or carrier pigeon.

Congrats to CANdiLab PhD Candidate @WillDenomme for his @CPA_SCP talk detailing his recent meta-analysis of machine learning models for predicting externalizing features in antisocial populations. 👏🧠👏 Standing room only!

Congrats to CANdiLab student Kirsten Stewart for her successful poster at @CPA_SCP on when and why individuals with heightened psychopathic traits may choose to empathize with others.

Reminder that #CANdiLab will be accepting *at least* one top graduate student (#MSc or #PhD level) into the @OTfpsych program at @ontariotech_u. Topics of study: * Psychopathy * Empathy * Addictions * Fear/Emotion Processing * Social/Affective Neuroscience Email to inquire!

CANdiLab will be recruiting one top-notch graduate student for 2021/22. Applicants should have strong writing/analytical skills, and an insatiable curiosity for both psychological questions and neuroscience methods. Interested? Get in touch! candilab.com

But empathy doesn't have to be virtuous. Indeed, one could conceivably empathize for several nonvirtuous reasons: to manipulate, manage, to get information. As existing empathy measures rarely consider these potential motives, their prevalence remains unknown. 5/9

Most empathy scales to date (e.g. the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire @themarlab @Nathan_Spreng) lean heavily towards the evaluation of what we refer to as 'virtuous motives' to empathize: caring, concern, sympathy, helping). 4/9

This idea of empathy as motivation makes a lot of sense, and has been catching on. But also begs the next question, not yet fully evaluated: what then are the specific motivations that influence whether one empathizes or not? 3/9